June 2015: (1) Candidacy for the doctoral degree in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering was approved effective June 3, 2015. My first US education degree C. Phil was awarded.
(2) Attended DAC'15, San Fransisco, CA and present [paper] [slides] [poster].

June-Sep. 2014: Started as R&D software engineering intern at Synopsys, Inc., the leading software and IP company in EDA, built power analysis engine for IC Compiler & PrimeTime and shipped a bunch of code from my summer projects into the product.